Snapdragon 860 Vs Snapdragon 888
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Snapdragon 888 SoCs by Qualcomm. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
- Snapdragon 860 has 4.23% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (2960 vs 2840 MHz).
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
- Snapdragon 888 has 24.44% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (840 vs 675 MHz).
- Snapdragon 888 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
- Snapdragon 888 has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (5 vs 7 nm).
- Snapdragon 888 has 74.26% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (808 K vs 464 K ).
- Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
- Snapdragon 888 Support 50.01% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 (51.2 vs 34.13 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 143028 | 211734 |
| GPU | 179320 | 306250 |
| Memory | 69420 | 133870 |
| UX | 72190 | 156641 |
| Total score | 463958 | 808495 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 142.85 Mpixels/s | 177.1 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 20.3 images/s | 26.5 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 44.55 words/s | 67.7 words/s |
| Machine learning | 46.35 images/s | 59.9 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 22.85 images/s | 37.5 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 1.65 Mnodes/s | 3.96 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 777.9 Mnodes/s | 1060 Mnodes/s |
3DMark
27%
SD 86040%
SD 888Score: 5126
| Stability | 98% | 91% |
| Graphics test | 20 FPS | 30 FPS |
| Score | 3455 | 5126 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 888Display
| Max On-Device Display | FHD+ @ 120 Hz | 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz |
| Max On-Display Resolution | QHD @ 60Hz | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max External Display | - | 4K @ 60 Hz |
| HDR | HDR10+ | Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 |
| Color Depth | Up to 10-bit | Up to 10-bit |
| Color Gamut | Rec2020 | Rec. 2020 |
CPU
78%
SD 86075%
SD 888
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold) 3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold) 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver) |
1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1) 3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78) 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55) |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 1800 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 2960 MHz | 2840 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.1-A | ARMv8.4-A |
| L1 cache | - | 512 KB |
| L2 cache | - | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | 2 MB | 4 MB |
| Process | 7 nm | 5 nm |
| Transistor count | - | - |
| TDP | 10 W | 10 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 640 | Adreno 660 |
| Architecture | Adreno 600 | Adreno 600 |
| GPU frequency | 675 MHz | 840 MHz |
| Execution units | 2 | 2 |
| Shading units | 384 | 512 |
| FLOPS | 1037 Gigaflops | 1720 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | 3200 MHz |
| Bus | 4 x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 34.13 Gbit/s | 51.2 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 16 GB | 24 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 690 | Hexagon 780 |
| Storage type | EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 | UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP | 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 120FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| Video playback | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS | 8K at 30FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 |
| Audio codecs | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | X24 LTE, X50 5G | X60 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 20 | LTE Cat. 22 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Peak Download speed | Up to 5000 Mbps | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Peak Upload speed | Up to 1200 Mbps | Up to 3000 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced Date | April 2019 | December 2020 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | SM8150-AC | SM8350 |
| Official page | Snapdragon 860 official site | Snapdragon 888 official site |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
38.25
Review By TenzysTech
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
40.75
Review By TenzysTech
